Alexey Kondrashov
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Alexey Simonovich Kondrashov (Russian: Алексе́й Си́монович Кондрашо́в) (born April 11, 1957) worked on a variety of subjects in evolutionary genetics. He is best known for the deterministic mutation hypothesis[1] explaining the maintenance of sexual reproduction,[2] his work on sympatric speciation,[3] and his work on evaluating mutation rates.[4]
Alexey Simonovich Kondrashov | |
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Born | (1957-04-11) April 11, 1957 (age 67) Moscow, Russia |
Alma mater | Moscow State University (1978) |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Biology |
Institutions | University of Michigan |
Originally from the Soviet Union, A.S. Kondrashov has been working in the United States since the early 1990s. His work currently focuses on measuring rate of spontaneous mutation in Drosophila. Also, he studies selection at the sequence level and protein evolution.[5] He founded the laboratory of evolutionary genomics in the College of Bioengineering and Bioinformatics at Lomonosov Moscow State University.